Do younger audiences even get the instant video gag?

It’s low enough orbit that a space shuttle mission went to repair it shortly after it was launched.

Not at all surprising if the claims of quotas of something like 3000 arrests a day are accurate. They’re obviously going after the low hanging fruit given the pressure to fill that daily quota.

Reminds me a bit of Theranos. “Pay no attention to the man (or woman) behind the curtain”…

Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands over the kidnapping and rape of his son back in the 1980s.

Plauche learned that the suspect was being flown back to town in police custody, and figured out the flight he was on. He waited at the airport, pretending to be using a pay phone. As the suspect was escorted past him he walked up and shot him in the head at almost point blank range. A local TV station caught it all on camera and I think you can still find it if you search for it.

Plauche was ultimately convicted of manslaughter but was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service. No jail time.

I think the trailer would have generated far more interest if it stopped at showing Rocky’s “hand” and didn’t show all of him.

I managed a research cluster for a university for about 10 years. The hardware was largely commodity and not specialized. Unless you call nVidia GPU’s or InfiniBand “specialized”. Linux was the obvious choice because many cluster-aware applications, both open source and commercial, run on Linux.

We even went so far as to integrate the cluster with CERN’s ATLAS grid to share data and compute power for analyzing ATLAS data from the LHC. Virtually all the other grid clusters ran Linux, so that made it much easier to add our cluster to its distributed environment.

That sequence, to me, is just a modern take on the underwater scuba diver battle in Thunderball.

Reminds me a bit of how South Park parodied Marvel & streaming services a few years ago…

“Netflix, you’re green-lit. Who am I speaking with?”

How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?

I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?

Snow piles on the sidewalks but green leaf-filled trees off to the left & in the background. I live in the Boston suburbs and you would never see that much greenery & snow at the same time. Somebody didn’t do a good job with their set dressing…

An extended scene of her dance fighting would be fun to see.

I just remember that the illusions in the second one were so absurd that there’s no way they could have been done live, much less in front of groups of people. When the basic premise of a movie doesn’t work then the whole thing ends up being cringeworthy.

The second one was worse.

Change the naming from “window seat” to “bulkhead seat”…

I’ve hardly scratched the surface with them, but I did create on/off sensors for my ancient washer & dryer with them. I’m sure I’ll come up with more ideas soon enough.

I hope somebody documents every penny Texas wastes on this frivolous crap.

You mention it’s listening on port 53, but have you actually tried DNS queries to see how it responds? Will it resolve www.google.com or <reverse_ip>.in-address.arpa?

So glad to hear this. Had Insteon in my old house and moved when they shut down, so I’m mostly using eave now in the new house. I loved Insteon, and kept my hub & plug in modules when we moved. I’ll definitely consider using them again going forward.

That level of effort is way above the pay grade of a typical beat cop.